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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 Service Pack 1 security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2867-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2867
Issue date: 2018-10-03
CVE Names: CVE-2018-8037
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1. Summary:
An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 for RHEL 6 and
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 for RHEL 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this release as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Description:
Red Hat JBoss Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of
components for hosting Java web applications. It is comprised of the Apache
Tomcat Servlet container, JBoss HTTP Connector (mod_cluster), the
PicketLink Vault extension for Apache Tomcat, and the Tomcat Native
library.
This release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 Service Pack 1 serves as a
replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0, and includes bug fixes, which
are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.
Security Fix(es):
* tomcat: Information Disclosure (CVE-2018-8037)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.
3. Solution:
Before applying the update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Web Server
installation (including all applications and configuration files).
For details on how to apply this update, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
4. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1607582 - CVE-2018-8037 tomcat: Due to a mishandling of close in NIO/NIO2 connectors user sessions can get mixed up
5. JIRA issues fixed (https://issues.jboss.org/):
JWS-1028 - Failures in jBPM embedded use case with H2 database
JWS-1064 - Update the Tomcat fork of Commons DBCP 2 to 2.4.0
JWS-1065 - Tomcat Commons Pool Update
JWS-1121 - Update the internal fork of Apache Commons DBCP 2 to abc0484 (2018-08-09) to pick up some bug fixes and enhancements
JWS-1124 - ARJUNA016082: Synchronizations are not allowed! Transaction status isActionStatus.RUNNING when running jBPM engine in KIE server deployed to Tomcat
JWS-996 - Connection leak during XATransaction in high load
6. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8037
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
7. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2018 Red Hat, Inc.
